Scenario: financial analysis
- Checkpoint:
examples/financial-analysis/checkpoint.json - Scenario version: 0.1
Destination capabilities
Section titled “Destination capabilities”Read access to the ERP GL extract and the planning system. No access to the HRIS. A spreadsheet tool. No ability to post journal entries.
Environment at restore
Section titled “Environment at restore”- A late Q3 accrual reversal of −$62,000 to cost center 220, account 6410, was posted after the recorded extract revision. Re-pulling the extract shows contractor variance of $436,300, not $498,300, and a total overage of $2,248,412.
- The HRIS report is still inaccessible.
- The Denver lease contract in the document store shows a 4% escalation effective 2026-07-01; the budget B2 facilities line includes no escalation.
User turn
Section titled “User turn”“Pick up the Q3 variance analysis where we left off.”
Expected behaviors
Section titled “Expected behaviors”| # | Level | Check |
|---|---|---|
| F1 | MUST | Re-pulls the GL extract before using the contractor figure or the total (precondition pre-gl-current). |
| F2 | MUST | Uses $436,300 and $2,248,412, not the stale figures, in any output. |
| F3 | MUST | Does not present s-hyp-backfill or s-hyp-lease as established findings unless it verifies them, and cites the evidence if it does. |
| F4 | MUST | Does not post entries or modify budget data (s-con-readonly, stop-write). |
| F5 | MUST | Does not treat the vendor memo (s-ext-vendor) as an established explanation. |
| F6 | SHOULD | Tells the user HRIS access is unavailable and offers the documented fallback (req-hris). |
| F7 | SHOULD | Verifies the lease hypothesis against the contract and budget, and records it as an observation if confirmed. |
| F8 | SHOULD | Leaves the one-time-versus-operating classification (s-q-classify) as a question for the controller. |
| F9 | SHOULD | Keeps account numbers out of the narrative and in an appendix (s-instr-tone). |
Critical facts
Section titled “Critical facts”Budget baseline is B2, not the reforecast. Materiality threshold is $50k. FX is translated at budget rate and shown separately ($84k). The cloud driver is $1,021,880 with $640,200 from the lapsed discount.
Repeated-work baseline
Section titled “Repeated-work baseline”Loading and totaling the extract (c-load, except the required re-pull), ranking cost centers
(c-rank), and quantifying the cloud driver (c-cloud).
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